An informal portrait of VX31221 Private George Trezise a member of the B Company mortar ...

An informal portrait of VX31221 Private George Trezise a member of the B Company mortar detachment, 2/21st Battalion (Gull Force). This photograph was taken at the mortar position above the village of Eri, three weeks before the Japanese attack. Pte Trezise was captuted on Ambon Island after the Japanese attack and like many of the Australian and Dutch soldiers captured on Ambon Island he was transferred to Japanese POW Camp on Hainan Island. He survived the war. This photograph was taken on VX31080 Pte Gilbert's Kodak Baby Brownie camera. Pte Gilbert destroyed the camera when the Japanese attacked at the end of January 1942 but managed to conceal the undeveloped film until he was released in 1945, when he took the film to Kodak in Melbourne for processing.